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= What's In Store: for Ontolog Planning ConferenceCall_2008_11_13 Reference  =

== Inventory of Planned and Candidate Ontolog Event, Projects & Initiatives  ==

* Candidate speaker and panelist (semi-invited already; no dates set) 
** [[SuzannaLewis|Suzanna Lewis]] 
** [[DeborahMcGuinness]] 
** Natasha Noy 
** [[BillAndersen|Bill Andersen]] 
** [[AzamatAbdoullaev|Azamat Abdoullaev]] [PeterYim / 2007.10.25 - no response received] 
* ''(the following were added during ISWC & FOIS 2008 =ppy/2008.11.13)'' 
** [[TimFinin|Tim Finin]] (UMBC) 
** [[IanHorrocks|Ian Horrocks]] (Oxford) 
** [[StefanDecker|Stefan Decker]] 
** [[EnricoMotta|Enrico Motta]] (KMi, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) 
** [[RudiStuder|Rudi Studer]] (AIFB, Karlsruhe) 
** JohnGiannandre (Metaweb) - Freebase 
** [[BijanParsia|Bijan Parsia]] & Pavel Klinov (Univ. of Manchester) - "Optimization and Evaluation of Reasoning in
Probabilistic Description Logic: Towards a Systematic Approach" 
** [[AldoGangemi|Aldo Gangemi]] 
** [[PeterMika|Peter Mika]] - [[VoCamp|Vo Camp]] 
** [[JohannaSeibt|Johanna Seibt]] (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) - "Non-Transitive Mereology on Processes: Some Applications of General Process Theory in the Theory of Interactions" - ''(already scheduled for Prof. Seibt to give us a talk on ConferenceCall_2009_02_05 with [[MichaelGruninger|Michael Gr&uuml;ninger]] chairing the session)'' 

* '''Ongoing, past & candidate mini-programs or mini-series''' 
*  
** Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions [ DuaneNickull / KurtConrad ] 
*** candidate: [[DennisThomas|Dennis Thomas]] - Mark 3 knowledge platform (#proprietary) 
*** candidate: Freebase / Metaweb# 
** Ontologies in Emergency Response [ RexBrooks / BobSmith ] 
** [[EmergingOntologyShowcase]] (content) [ [[User:KennethBaclawski|Ken Baclawski]] / MikeBennett ] 
*** [[NigelCollier|Nigel Collier]] / [[SonDoan|Son Doan]] - [[BioCaster|Bio Caster]] - http://biocaster.nii.ac.jp/ 
*** [[JohnGraybeal|John Graybeal]] / [[LuisBermudez|Luis Bermudez]] / [[CarlosRueda|Carlos Rueda]] - Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) project - http://marinemetadata.org 
*** [[PatCassidy|Pat Cassidy]] - COSMO - http://micra.com/COSMO 

*  
** [[SemanticWiki]] [ HaroldSolbrig / [[LiDing|Li Ding]] / [[MaxVoelkel|Max Voelkel]] / [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / SebastianSchaffert ] 
*** see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SemanticWiki/Prep 
** Joint OOR-Ontolog Panel mini-series [ [[User:KennethBaclawski|Ken Baclawski]] / [[MichelleRaymond|Michelle Raymond]] / [[MikeDean|Mike Dean]] / [[PaulBuitelaar|Paul Buitelaar]] / [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] ] 
*** one session scheduled for ConferenceCall_2008_12_04 - possibly with a panel showcasing 4 different EU efforts in ontology respositories/libraries and related work 
** candidates: 
*** AlexGarcia - collaborative ontology development 
*** [[LarKC]] [DougLenat / MikeDean] 
*** OKKAM, the EU ontology repository effort [DougLenat] 
*** DSpace 
*** [[SchemaWeb]] - [MikeDean/2007.10.09] ...another repository is http://schemaweb.info. 
*** UCore (DoD) [...?... LeoObrst] 
*** OpenCyc WebServices [LeoObrst / 2008.08.15] 
*** "Open Repositories 2008" (DigitalLibrary) folks [LeoObrst / 2007.10.09] - Ontology Repository at University of Manchester [MikeDean / 2008.04.23] - http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/repository/ 
** Topics - Research areas and Implementation approaches 
*** Business Processes and Policies for Managing a Ontology Repository 
*** Storage and Access of Knowledge in an Ontology Repository 
*** Importing, Validation, Versioning of Ontologies in a Repository 
*** Mapping and Merging over Ontologies and Upper Ontologies within a Repository [NatashaNoy, Cliff Josyln - suggested by FrankOlken] 
*** Search, Query, and Presentation of OOR held information 

* Ontology Summits [ NIST / Ontolog / NCOR / ... ] 
** candidate-1 for 2009 - proposed: Training and Education [BarrySmith] 
** candidate-2 for 2009 - proposed: Ontolgies as the Next Generation of Information Standards [ [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]] / [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] / [[BarrySmith|Barry Smith]] / [[LaurentLiscia|Laurent Liscia]] (OASIS)] 

* (repeat?) successful past programs 
** [[DatabaseAndOntology]] [MatthewWest] 
** [[OntologyMeasurementEvaluation]] [SteveRay] 
** [[OKMDS]] [NASA / Ontolog / KMWG] 

* (continue?) past programs 
** [[OntologizingOntolog|Ontologizing Ontolog]] 
*** [[OntologTaxoThesaurus]] [ BobSmith / DeniseBedford ] 
*** during FOIS-2008, [[JohnBateman|John Bateman]] indicated interest in the possibility of doing something with the Ontolog body of knowledge 
** [[ONION]] [ CarlMattocks ] 

* Candidates: 
** [[User:KennethBaclawski|Ken Baclawski]]: discussion on "what needs to be done!" 
** [[SvenVanPoucke]]: feature "Ask the experts" series - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-admin/2008-08/msg00000.html 

*  
** mini-series on "Reasoners & Theorem Provers" 
*** candidate champions: [[MichaelGruninger|Michael Gr&uuml;ninger]] / [[ConradBock|Conrad Bock]] / TillMossakowski ] 
*** candidate presentation: Aditya Kalyanpur / Kavitha Srinivas (IBM) [ChrisWelty] - OWL reasoner called SHER (now has a public demofor medical ontologies) - http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/iaa.index.html & http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/anatomylens/ - (# IBM Alphaworks) 
*** candidate presentation:  Hans Chalupsky on PowerLoom http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/PowerLoom/ 
*** build this up to a workshop at the "Deductive Reasoning" conference - [MichaelGruninger] - workshop proposal due Feb-2009 

*  
** ... (more) Open Ontology Tools 

* Emerging ontological work products - '''application''' 
** ... (tackle in the Duane / Kurt) Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions 

* collaborations 
** NIST 
** NCOR 
** CEW 
** NASA 
** NARA (?) 
** (I)AOA (emerging) 
** OASIS 
** STI-Int'l 
** DERI 

* project and initiative (sharing CWE) 
** OOR 
** BSP 
** (I)AOA 

=== Remarks  ===

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